Visual studio 2019 General Questions

Hi Jack,

Are you using Visual Studio Preview? There are three main stable versions of Visual Studio 2019 – Community, Professional and Enterprise. But Preview version gives you early access to the latest features and improvements not yet available in the main release.

If you are looking for a stable environment to use and don't want to try out the features coming in the next release, you should use the release channel version of Visual Studio 2019 (Community, Professional and Enterprise). I recommend you can have a try to use Visual Studio 2019 Community version, as it is free to use.

For more detailed information and differences about these three release channel versions of Visual Studio 2019, please kindly check this document: Compare Visual Studio 2019 Editions.

By the way, you can check more release notes of Preview version from here: Visual Studio 2019 Preview Release Notes, and release channel versions from here: Visual Studio 2019 (Current Release Notes).

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Update 1

If you want a stable version, you should select VS Community\Professional\Enterprise, they are stable products released by Microsoft for the majority of users.

And since VS2017, VS does not support ISO file to install VS and they all use the Web installer to download the installation of VS. So if you want an ISO file, you have to make it yourself. And VS2019 supports it.

If you need to make a stable CD version, then you need to make an offline version of VS, and download and save the various working domains of VS in advance. Then when you install VS, read it directly from the current folder or hard disk, instead of the Internet.

First, I suggest you could download VS Community and it is safe for every users.

Download the vs_community_xxx.exe from this link.

Then call CMD, then run

cd xxxx(the folder which exists vs_communtiy_xxx.exe)

next run:

vs_community_xxx.exe --layout c:\vslayout --lang en-US

c:\vslayout is the final generation package.

Note: This will install all the workloads and components, so it will spend a lot of time. And if you want to install the related workload and component, you should specify the related necessary Workload ID and related Component ID at the same time. Like --add xxxxx(workload ID) --add xxxx(related Component ID) .You can refer to this document.

Then you finish it, you can just put the vslayout package into your CDs, DVDs or mobile disk. And with them all, you have an ISO version.

When you install it, you can just click on the vs.xxx.exe on the package to install VS without Internet.

Best Regards,
Tianyu

Thanks for the reply.

I am going to fall back to the latest stable release.

I do not have a fast download connection and need to create CDs or DVDs of the install packages.

Please advise.